THOUGH most of Queens’ streets, except lengthy main roads such as Northern Boulevard, Queens Boulevard, etc. were numbered beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, some outmoded names continued to show…

THIS photo of the long-gone West Side Highway in Manhattan has been making the rounds today (it’s in Facebook’s Lost New York page) so I thought I’d wade in. Surprisingly…

JUNCTION Boulevard splits the heart of western Queens, dividing neighborhoods as it goes. It forms the undefended barrier between Jackson Heights and East Elmhurst north of Roosevelt Avenue at the…

EVERY so often, I like to note place names that are unique to New York City and it’s likely I won’t find another Watchogue Road with a search on Google…

I have written about Kings Highway a number of times in FNY and have walked much of its length over the quarter century I have posted on Forgotten NY. I…

UNION Turnpike, seen here just east of Utopia Parkway and the St. John’s University campus, begins its lengthy run to New Hyde Park, Nassau County, from Myrtle Avenue and 86th…

My posts will be intermittent for awhile as I recover from surgery, but I am feeling better. My father was just as much a photo buff as I turned out…

CREEDMOOR Psychiatric Center is located on the old grounds of the Creedmoor rifle range, deeded to New York State for that use by the National Guard in 1872. International matches…

NEW York City has weeded out most of its more colorful names over the decades, such as the Bronx’ Bear Swamp Road, Staten Island’s Skunks Misery and Gun Factory Roads…

GRAVESEND Neck Road was once a major east-west artery in Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay in the days of carts and wagons. “Neck Road” as it’s called by locals and the MTA…

SINCE I haven’t been able to get out much, I have decided to continue my recently minted series Where It All Begins, that employs the magic of Google Street View…

BEGINNING a series here that I will return to from time to time about where NYC’s longest roads originate. My aim here is to show the “sources” of roads and…